The Origins of Homo Sapiens
The Ancients
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Interbreeding With Neander Tol Dana
There could have been a bit of interbreeding, because we know that modern mammal species at a closer raty can interbreed. These were small populations. They probably didn't meet each other very often. And then we've had forty thousand years since to lose any trace of interbreeding. We now know it was happening in europe and even across asia. There were multiple interbreeding events with the neadatols contributing little bits of their d ana, eventually to our genomes. To begin with, it would have been a high level. Here we've got a replica of a jaw bone from rumania that's directly dated to about forty thousand years ago. Now that's
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